I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.