Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Learn from the past, but don't live there, Plan the future, but don’t live there. Remember the Present is where we truly spend the rest of our lives.

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.