The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.

Don't wanna marry nobody, if they're already married.

You are the most powerful force in your life.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.