How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

If the intent is right, why waste time thinking about the consequences.

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the Kingdom of God.

I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.