Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

If I flew for you, you would still be standing.

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.