When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The first step toward success is a deep driving desire.

Failure is temporary but hope is forever.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.