O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

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