Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.