On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

Leaders are not worried about what they can’t do

A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

…if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

I continue to explore poetry.