When my cats aren't happy, I am not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
The soul's joy lies in doing.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
