It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

I can’t tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Too travel is sometimes better to arrive!