The word book acted as a transient stimulus

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.