We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Success always hugs you in private, but failure slaps you in the public...

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.