Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.

Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.