Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Fire is fire.

Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.

Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.