Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.