Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him?

The virtue in most request is conformity.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Boldness is a child of ignorance.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, And make a checkered shadow on the ground; Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit, And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, As if a double hunt were heard at once, Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise; And after conflict such as was supposed The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed, When with a happy storm they were surprised, And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave, We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds Be unto us as is a nurse's song Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.

Herblock's Law: if it is good, they will stop making it.

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

it is a good experience, it makes me stronger.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.