Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Never see yourself as being superior to others

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions

Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.