A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.