Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and - cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

I like to let things breathe.