"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.

It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

Power without authority is tyranny.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.