Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

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.

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

I’m trusting that the pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

Cease consuming, practice generosity.

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.