Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

To be at rest is to be at peace.

If living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

I’d wait forever for you, as long as you’re mine.