What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

I wasn’t born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I’m here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.

The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

I once was lost, but now am found.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.