Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

You call that a kiss?

Water is the driving force of all nature.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.