Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Your thoughts are more real than you are.

Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation

No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.