Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

When things come to the worst they generally mend.

You want a revolution, start murdering innocents.

What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.