Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.

It's very important to know when to stop explaining yourself, because not everyone with ears listens with them.

the worst happens when you least expect it

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared.

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

The gene as the basis of life.

People should and do trust me.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.