Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

Capture your youth, while you can.

It is better to experience than to be told. But it is wiser to learn from the great sacred-souls.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

I was so young when I was born.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.