The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes

You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.

Home is where you hange your memories. . . Home is where you begin again to dream again.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. I believed everything and everyone. Then, I met my parents!

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I think you have to embrace every moment of the day.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.