Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Almost everyone yearns for change in their lives.

The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.