habit is our idea of eternity.

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!

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Shut up... or I'll kill you.

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.