Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but read more

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the read more

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to read more

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

I've told it so many times.

I've told it so many times.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people read more

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.