An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.