who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

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!

You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!

How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted

Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.