Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

It’s a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

I'm not anorexic, bullimic, or any other “ic” you can think of.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.