Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

My train was late that day. the day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.