I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Trees are your best antiques.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Books are a finer world within the world.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in another, and the delight in the recognition.

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word.

An old novel has a history of its own.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.