Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

Let your heart be an infant of hope not an adult of despair.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then get my own apartment.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

The common damn'd shun their society.