I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Suffering fuels strength.

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.

And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet

My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Experience is always larger than language.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.