Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

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!

A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.