Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Is it possible for one to enter sleep and wander while never waking? And if so, for how long can one survive this way?

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

I may not know much but I can count.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

Close your eyes and you will see.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.