Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

it wasn't the caughing that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in.

I am fond of children--except boys.

To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away.

One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind Their doctrines here are sure to seek, And just as sure to find.

Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise.

Wives often object to life insurance, widows never do.

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.