Words that weep and tears that speak.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.