Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

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.

It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

I'm running out of words to describe this lad.

...smile first, then speak.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.