The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do, love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe.

I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window. As it turned out the bridge was the Triborough, and I stayed eight years.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

There is no accounting for tastes.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.