Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.

I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the spiritual things of the Gospel; but a profluency of speech, venting itself on all occasions and on no occasions, making men open their mouths wide when indeed they should shut them and open their ears, and to pour out all that they know and ... what they do not know, making them angry if they are not heard and impatient if they are contradicted, is an unconquerable fortification against all true spiritual wisdom.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.