We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Lewis H. Lapham

If you see those pretty thingsthat nature likes to showRemember all those seals that singAnd leave them there to grow.

Stephen Cosgrove

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Isaac Watts

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

George Nethercutt

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

George Eliot

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.

Leo Tolstoy

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Eric Hoffer

As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul.

Loomis

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

Julia Barr

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

C.S. Lewis

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

My daughter is my passion and my life.

Tamara Mellon