Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

He’d done it like he did everything else—with passion and total disregard for how much it might embarrass her.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.