The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.

I don t get through many pairs. Luckily enough they are very hard wearing.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.