The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Dance to the light that is your soul.

Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

I love crazy, gaudy bling.