Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Everything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions.

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.

Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.