The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Forget yesterday - it can’t even remember you anymore. Don't worry about tomorrow – you’ve not met yet. Open your heart to the wonderful gift that is in front of you - today.

Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.