The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

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!

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.