No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

It is a fact that you have a calling, but you must also know when the time comes for its fulfillment

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Success starts with believing before you can achieve it.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I just wanted to be a scientist

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?