Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Love could be instant and unconditional but trust develops through time. You may not trust wholeheartedly while loving someone unconditionally.

The sacred jar of oil shall never run out.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Make your feet your friend.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.