Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

I finally figured out why Voldemort's face is so flat. He ran into the wrong wall at the train station.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

It's so hard not to smile.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.