Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.

Your world is created by your words.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.