I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.
Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image. . . As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say