Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It’s the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther