To love is to burn, to be on fire.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I regard President Trump as an international terrorist.

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.