Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

It is no use trying to sum people up.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

Princes give rewards with their own hands, But death or punishment by the hands of other.

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.

Runner up is champion of the losers.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

I tend to gravitate towards neutrals in my home but also love finding interesting fabrics or pieces that add a pop of color.

My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.