The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

I like it when people who aren't so attractive, or they have a whole lot of hurdles to get over, I like it when they dress up and they look presentable. That, to me, just touches me.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.