Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.