I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

It is grievous to be caught.

This is great literature and great religious literature, this collection of ancient writings we call the Bible, and any translator has a deep sense of responsibility as he undertakes to transmit it to modern readers. He desires his transcript to be faithful to the meaning of the original, so far as he can reach that meaning, and also to do some justice to its literary qualities. But he is well aware that his aim often exceeds his grasp. Translation may be a fascinating task, yet no discipline is more humbling. You may be translating oracles, but soon you learn the risk and folly of posing as an oracle yourself. If your readers are dissatisfied at any point, they may be sure that the translator is still more dissatisfied, if not there, then elsewhere -- all the more so, because, in the nature of the case, he has always to appear dogmatic in print.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Beggars must be no choosers.

If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his mortal body, he did it for our example and instruction, to the end that, following his steps, according to our poor ability, we might without offense pass over this present life.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

One rose says more than the dozen.

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."