Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.
You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.