Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.