A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign, we've all seen at least three times.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.