Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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.

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

I've been under audit almost for 15 years.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

This is unbearable how I talk.

Let work itself be the ambition.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person