Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

Some ideas take you to the stars

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.

And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.