And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Peace cannot be kept by force

We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.

I have never believed in supernatural until I fell in love with a stranger that made me do supernatural things.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.