I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.