He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Fate goes ever as fate must.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Where do we get our values from?

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.