The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

I wish I was invisible to him, to everyone.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.