Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity.