May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea

He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget.

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.