As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

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.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

I'm not a queen of anything, you know.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!