A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family.

Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!

I don’t really want fame and fortune

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Novelists never have to footnote.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.