My health is fine.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

Jean de La Fontaine

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Ernest Hemingway

don't talk, I will listen don't talk, you keep your distance I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies

Natalie Merchant

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Howard Mumford Jones

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man? a world without a sun.

CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii.

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

Jane Austen

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson