Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Not everything that's small is insignificant.

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

Photography is an act of love.

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.