O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

When the war's over, I'll be kind.

My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.