Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Some people make a difference, some people make you different.

They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

To laugh is proper to man.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.