My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

In my brain all I think about is fame.