No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What are you fighting for that you need to let go? Release the magic within. The magic of what could be.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Is it man that possesses love, or is it not much rather love that possesses man?

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.