The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

If truth be told, I came away ‘almost’ believing in their existence. (Author Nikki B. on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar)

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size, I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.