It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable e

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.