All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

I'm going to need to save you.""Excuse me? No one needs-""I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

Her lips were frosted with sugar and faeriedust.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

My daughter and I are so close. She just turned six. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine.

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.