Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

To know her was to love her.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.