Why is youth so short and age so long?

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.