Let us think less of men and more of God.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

I don't understand, " Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

What you resist, persists

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

I belong wherever I want to be.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.