But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

Should is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The Dionysian is no picnic.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.