I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Words of love, are works of love.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.

The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Private victories precede public victories.

Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.

Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.