Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Oft stumbles at a straw.

It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

I write poems to find out why I write them

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.