It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

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 is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Black is not a color.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.