Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

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.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.

I wear what I like to wear, I don't pick out clothes to try to fit in or whatever, I just like what I like.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

Quanity has it's own quality.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.