Happiness was born a twin.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.