Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. – C. S. Lewis

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. – Henry David Thoreau

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do shell expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. – W. C. Fields