Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w

It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.