Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?

Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?

The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.