A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

You can become anything you put your mind to. Just make sure it's worth a read.

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.

It sucked when you cared about someone and they didn't return your feelings..

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.