It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

This world's a bubble.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.