“There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.”

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

The road is long fro the project to its completion.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.

Who wants to kill you? The guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. Theres nobody there, the girlfriend told me. Youre making them think they cant see you, arent you? I said to patch, awed by his power even as i despised his use of it.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.