“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.”

“Jake: How often does the train go by?

Elwood: So often you won't even notice it.”

“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”

“Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.”

“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”