There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I fell in love with the expression in his eyes when he looked at me.

Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Compared to eternity, every lapse is short.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.