If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Your spirit nourishes from your old God and prophet, but mine nourishes from wisdom and conscience.

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, ..., and he had very red hair.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.