You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover.

It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems."Hank the Cowdog

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.