Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

The hand betrays the heart.

The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

She slid her fingers into his thick hair and melted while he kissed her as if there were no tomorrow. He tempted, he seduced, he enticed.And she willingly followed.

Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

I'm probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.