How sweet and sacred idleness is!

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

The grace of God is freely given.

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

Washington's a cesspool of money.