Give me a man who sings at his work.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.