Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.