What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.