"Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire, who haunt parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church repair, not for the doctrine but the music there." An Essay on Criticism -Alexander Pope
"She well knew he great architecural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration." Barchester Towers -Anthony Trollope
"I wish i could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without is intellect is poverty." Eve's Diary -Mark Twain
"If all else perished, and he remaind. I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilatedz the universe would turn a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." Wuthering Heights -Family BrontΓ«
"Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!" Nicholas Nickelby -Charles Dickens
"Ah, things are always different from what thay might be. If you wait for them to change you'll never do anything." The Portrait of a Lady -Henry James
"The sweetest honey Is loathaome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately." The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet -William Shakespeare
"Oh, what good'll writing do? I want to put my head out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're sick and when you're lonesome." Ethan Frome -Edith Wharton
"Eternal time, that was no longer his, without days, without seasons, without years, without a future, abstract time, to which he had no attachments of any kind." Broken April -Ismail Kadare