Genius is nourished from within and without.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted

If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on Fox News.

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

No one should have to grieve alone.