Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

As we grow old the beauty steals inward.

Life is neither good or evil but only a place for good and evil.

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Most married couples even though they love each other very much in theory tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself, his aim is so exalted that riches office fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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