To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.

When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself

To make it a perfect season, let us feel joy and love everyone without a reason.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.