The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

When death tells a story yo really have to listen

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .