Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

I will always catch you when you fall

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.