Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on, "an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".

Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn’t it?“I’ve made some bad decisions, ” Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

Believe things, rather than man.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.