Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

I want to fly like a butterfly around this beautiful world, till the last frame of my life and the last click of my heart.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

I'm wearing a put together from a little shop that I favor called The Back of My Closet.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.