Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains, drinking poison, and now quietly choosing annihilation.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Every story is us

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

The writer is all alone.