No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

In the land of the seeing, blind Lady Justice is Queen.

Don’t waste a good idea or allow it to die inside you. One idea can bring you to the top, make your day or spark off chains of success chain reactions.

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.