No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

William Arthur Ward

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Emily Dickinson

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Oscar Wilde

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Oscar Wilde

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when its gone.

Rob Thomas

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz