The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.