There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

That which costs little is less valued.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.