And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Time is a waste of money.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence.

Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.