Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Time is priceless gift.

Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.