Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The Only God left standing 'There' is Oneness and Unity of Everything. And not a fancied man-like god - yours or mine. Get 'IT'?

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.