The quiet sense of something lost

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Iron sharpens iron scholar the scholar.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Women want to be chosen.

You're all beautiful. And you shouldn't let anyone tell you otherwise.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.