Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.

And the Light shineth in darkness

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.