“You've a soul for a compass, and a heart for a pair of wings...Why walk when you can fly?”

“We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.”

“We've got two lives -- one we're given and the other one we make.”

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”

“Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.”

“Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?'His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?'She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?”

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career, and constellations shake their awful clusters--wanders amid the spectral nebula, and makes suns and systems to be but glittering beads upon the aspiring thread of its induction, cannot perish. There is a future life. In a universe so spherical and whole as this, reason argues that its own incompleteness and capacity for more are suggestive--are prophetical. Under-shadows and cross-lights of mystery, these filmy depths of present being, shudder in sympathy with something beyond.”