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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Seek peace, and pursue it. .

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.