Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.