A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.