There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

Once women find sisterhood, there's nothing stronger.