A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.