Mercelyn

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
― Jack Woodford

“I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”
― Groucho Marx