With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Life is sacred existence.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

An arrogant rich and a humble poor both need help! The former needs help to be human

Smile more to attract more.

Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.