My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill. .

You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.

Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

'Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, And I am something curious, being strange, To have them in sale stowage.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir?

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make, Why they lie also--under a mistake.

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.