So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

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.

….This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

If I start from a place of love, more times than not I will find what is "right, " but if I start from a position of "right" I will rarely find love.

You can't compare me with others, I am the most different.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Speak little, do much.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.