The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Every wound is a word.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

You may think I am falling, ... I’ m stronger than I have ever been

The essence of coexistence is quite simple: live and respect how others live.

Kindness is wisdom.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.