The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

Think about the people you love, appreciate, and admire… If today was the last day you could speak with them… What would you say… and what are you waiting for?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.