The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.