They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?

A good liar must have a good memory.

Loving you no more, I just I can't I just can't be loving you no more, I love you more than I love myself

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.