My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.