Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.