... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

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!

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants.

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

How long a time lies in one little word?