Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

The moment you blame life for who you are is that very moment you ignore your talents and inner abilities to change the world.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

The perfect rescue dog is out there for everybody. You just have to find it.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.