The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

The curvy woman likes to show skin in the right ways - and she should!

When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.