A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

In pain a new time is born.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

In pain is a new time born.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.