Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Be an example, not an adviser.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

I like people trying to do two things at once.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.