"Most works are most beautiful without ornament...." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.”

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

“Produce great men, the rest follows.”

“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter”

“Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.”

“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”

“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”

“April, like a child,Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers,Wipes them away and forgets.”

“Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”