Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.

For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I know all that better than my own name.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.