True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

All things are important to Elôm, even the little things.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.