We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.

..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum, " I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesn’t score many points, " he agreed.*

We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that.

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

I was a bit of a rebel.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.