Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.