Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.

Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.