O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

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.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

The primary reward of the gospel - God himself

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.