Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.

The world of possibilities surround you, if thy will look.

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I'm a pretty loyal person.

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.