If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

This is the best time to be an author.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.