The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

For Courtney’s whole life, seeing the world had only been a dream, but now, as Adrian Diamond’s daughter, it could be a reality.

It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I can't stand squealers, hit that guy!

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

I find my inspiration in myself.