An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Pity is akin to love.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

Reality has always had too many heads.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

If you see violence, condemn it.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.