Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

We forgive so long as we love.

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Our intention creates our reality.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.