Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

A fact may blossom into a truth.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks