"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

"I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her."

"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"

"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."

"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."

"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."

"And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself."

"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)"

"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

"Life is made of so many partings welded together"

"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."

"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."

"Trifles make the sum of life."

"There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you."

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time."

"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."

"I must do something or I shall wear my heart away..."

"Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug."

"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."

"I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free."

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."

"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."

"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

"The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him."

"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

"Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out."

"Every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything"

"Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph."

"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"

"Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks."

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”