Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.

Don't go on sharing your secret's with everyone, you have the best safe for your secrets - Your Mind.

The American army, ” said the Prince of Candia, “has the sweet, warm smell of a blond woman.”“You’re very kind, ” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

When I give I give myself.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.