The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

No social stability without individual stability.

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

Those big green eyes were even bigger than usual as she stared at the two of them. For a moment, she looked like a kid who’d found the last cupcake on the planet.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.