America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Now he belongs to the ages.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.