Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend. . . a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
Don't ask for respect. Earn it.