These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Don't run with swords in your mouth!

When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

Los Angeles has been good to me.

Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.