It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

This bank-note world.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

None knew thee but to love thee.

She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.

Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

Of course I was a dork, but that's OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.