Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

To read is to renew thy mind.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here, " he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Having the right perspective is tough when you’re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.