We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

Wild flowers grow where they will.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.