Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.