“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”

“I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.”

“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

“They that know no evil will suspect none.”

“O for an engine to keep back all clocks!”

“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”

“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before its too late.”

“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”