The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.
“For every thing that lives is Holy.”
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
“Loosen your girdle and let er fly!”
I felt free and therefore i was free.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
The business of the government is the business of the people.
friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about dresden.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.