“There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”

Self praise is no praise at all.

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!

You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

Who then will explain the explanation?

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.

Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.

Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible–that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.