I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

You will live once on earth.Live to pursue what you want.Do not wait for a next life...Reach out to your dreams.

Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination