Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

A dragon took what it wanted. Took and kept.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.