Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

She would live now, not read.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.

I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half.

Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box