Confidence is its own security.

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!

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.