Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

He looked so frustrated and perfectly serious, and yet here we were talking about his missing seal pelt.

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

I'm used to getting sexy sometimes in the lyrics.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.