When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get to work, your future lies ahead of you

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.

I'm no liar. I could have been wrong, but I ended up not being [wrong]. But I'm no liar.

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.