There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

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!

Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.

Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.