No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology

Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.