The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

You can't help those who don't know they need help.

I'm the riddle you have yet to solve

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind