Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child.

Sir, we have a saying in our country: ‘There’s no government, like no government.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.