It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

I can lend you my money not my books.

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.

I want to be some body’s dumplin’. I’m not chicken.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

I am the world's worst good bridge player.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.