There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.