The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

I like to travel by myself.

The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch