Nature's first great title--mind.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivial issues.

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.