Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning!

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.