It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

The soul shares not the body's test.

Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.

Education is the antidote to many poisons.

Anybody can make history

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.

The truth is that love and power go together.