The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

Any Federal official, who engages in employment discrimination, lacks the moral integrity to evenhandedly enforce our Nation’s laws or manage Federal programs.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

We've witnessed history in the making.

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something