James Russell Lowell

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.