Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people.

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.