if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.