... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart, In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

All sadness is a tantrum.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.