Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.