There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.
A foe to God was never true friend to man
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
And if I please you so, my lover, Remember praise is comely.
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
