If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

If I die, " he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?

I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.