Emotions and Feelings

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

I hold it true, what’re befall feel it, when I sorrow most ‘is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about.

Security is mostly superstition.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....

Why love if losing hurts so much we love to know that we are not alone.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.