Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

She reeked of respectability and sophistication, and he went hard on a helpless surge of lust.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.