There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.

Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ’s] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!

I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

Life is not fair and people are not equal.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.