It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

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."

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

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.