Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

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.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.