The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Prayer is a powerful force.

When angry count four when very angry swear.

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Death is when the monsters get you.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.