Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.