Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Fulfilling your special calling brings the greatest happiness.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.