Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he Yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, Green the grass-lawn stretched before them While the apple blossoms white Hung in rich profusion o'er them.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

How far you go in life is determined by how tender you are with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with those striving, and tolerant with the weak and strong, because some day in life you will have been all of them.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

You're in middle age when you realize you have more on your mind and less on your head.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.