O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

Wedded love is founded on esteem.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

No two men living at the same time live in the same time.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Loyalty is the first law of God.

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.