Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?

Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.