I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

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.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Words are but empty thanks.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

I’m worse at what I do best.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.