Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

Genius is eternal patience.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse ... but enough about Kanye West

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.