So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?

The purpose of God as a creator is based in a profound need resident within the Godhead

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

God has a purpose behind every problem.