Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

There's no doubt in our minds we can play with the best teams in the country - if we play well.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?