The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

The words of the twenty-third Psalm had come back to her, verses Mutti had helped her memorize as a young girl--Elise Neumann

In art economy is always beauty.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.