The fearless make their own way.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.