To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

There is no greater success than turning your true passion into a dream, and seeing its reality come to manifestation.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.