Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

Love gives the best of highsBut also the worst of hangovers.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

She is mine, and I am hers.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.