Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Photography is a generous medium.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world