“If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.”

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.

Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!

Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other.

But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind you.