“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.”

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Opposition is true Friendship.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Energy is eternal delight.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I feel like I’m pretty good but I don’t like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

A good book is an event in my life.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.