Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

I would give a century of my life for a single taste of your lips

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

2 Corinthians 3:17. Now the Lord is the Spirit...is that the one you like?

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'