The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Grace is goodness.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.