To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.

Clear out your thoughts, don't believe everything you think, it might be a trap within

Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.