The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.

Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

I spend a lot of time reading.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Big government makes small citizens.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

A man’s best friend is a good wife.