Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay, And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray, But we all end up remains of the day.

The most beautiful jewelry in the world is not a diamond necklace, but two hearts beating as one.

Baby bye Here's a fly Let us watch him you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Beware the man of the single book

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.