I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.