I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

Reading means borrowing.

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.

You're still here," he whispered. "They couldn't drag me away.

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.