Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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.

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that

Emptiness ate away at his inside, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Please clean up after your dogma.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.