To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

We must plow through the whole of language.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."