If a man owns land, the land owns him.
My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
We are all alike, on the inside.
Ready are you? What know you of ready?
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
The city is recruited from the country.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
