All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

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!

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Sometimes it pays to be a little wild.

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .