Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

William Shakespeare

In the streets and in society I am almost invariablycheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.No amount of gold or respectability would in the leastredeem it,-- dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!!But alone in the distant woods or fields,in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,when a villager would be thinking of his inn,I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalentto what others get by churchgoing and prayer.I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every dayabout half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it.I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America,out of my head and be sane a part of every day.

Henry David Thoreau

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

Henry David Thoreau

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

George Houston

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

Our true power is revealed when we give it to others.

Yossi Ghinsberg

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow

Why The Lucky Stiff

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Martin Amis