Do I look dead to you?!
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Only the brave know how to forgive. . . a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.