Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

All men desire to be immortal.