There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Listening

You are that angel of paradise.You are that flower of heaven.This universe was longing for you, with endless love for infinite time.

Loving God and people sets us free from the it’s all about me syndrome

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.