Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

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!

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.

Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

It's a hard world for little things.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.