Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

I'm an artist; I love everyone.

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.