Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

You are no better than you should be.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

The burning flame is the fierce fire.

Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

I was not a cool kid. There was no reason for me to be marginalised. I was just a nerd. I was kind of weird, and I found solace in video games.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.