Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. -Martin Luther.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these is: "It might have been".

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.