Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

in earth their have only one reason of war, i have power and want to show,

Not every wall needs a ceiling

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.