Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

Seeing is not always believing.

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride