May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.