Reader, I literally married him.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?