Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

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!

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Do not forget the joy of existence.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

I'll always be here waiting for you, " he said, touching my chest with his fingertips, drawing a shape of a heart.

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.