The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

Do the thing and the power will come.

Cursed be he that moves my bones.