The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

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!

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Embrace the future with enduring hope and faith.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.