O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

You need people around you who will tell you the truth and not hold anything back.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back