There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.