Selected quotation

"A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"

~ Emily Dickinson, from her letter to James D. Clark



Various books with quotations, aphorisms and proverbs:

The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

Apronisms: Pocket Wisdom for Every Day

Best Quotations for All Occasions

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

The Book of Positive Quotations, 2nd Edition

Ancient Wisdom: The Book of Proverbs With Devotions for Today

Chinese Proverbs

Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day (Offerings for Humanity)

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)

101 French Proverbs

Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes

America's Popular Sayings: Over 1600 Expressions on Topics from Beauty to Money and Everything In Between