In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

Gabby, I told you I'd give you space, but I never said I wouldn't fill your space with flowers. Brad

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.