The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.

If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

Nothing grows well without space and air.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.