My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Dream big, but do not fall asleep.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.

Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.