Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

You have to experience you own life just as death.

My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest.

Her voice was loud and cheerful, the way it was when nothing was well and she was determined not to show it.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.