Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Be Free!, That I want to Be !

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.