You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, ” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.