So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

We don't get paid to cheer lead for Donald Trump. We're just paid to cover him.

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.