Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

We have to believe going through darkness will eventually bring us light. Especially when night is out forever.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.