Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of livi... - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."