in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

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!

L'essere notata non mi va a genio, questo mi pare chiaro.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!

At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy.

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

All excellence is equally difficult.