No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks.

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.