Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

The demolition of a Temple is possible at any time, as it cannot walk away from its place.

Taste is tiring like good company.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

Passion overcomes obstacles.