Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

While there is life, there is hope.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Exercise is overrated.