of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

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!

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Time itself is an element.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

What is life for? Life is for you.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

It finally happened - a lawsuit for wrongful doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.