Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are.".

All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Save the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. -James Hillman.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promised note. Today is ready cash, use it!

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.