To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

what you don't know will cost you.

Do what you can to avoid or neutralize conversations which put people down. Think with your heart.

Every boss, if you are forgetting, is another human being made of bones and flesh and likes it when his ego gets stroked.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.