he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

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!

Good is equal to Order While, Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.

The rest is silence.

Adolescence is like cactus.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.