Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

God I loved Sammy. I’d considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?

live a death, die a death

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.