Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Knowledge is not determined by what you know, but by whether you believe you can always learn.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Only love can break your heart.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.