I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

I guarantee you there is someone in your life that deserves more appreciation. Who is it? Find that person and let them know!

A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.