Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

The People adore authority.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.