Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

You want to build a big business? Start with your character.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Success is not only in the hand

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.