A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

No coward soul is mine.

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.