Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

What's on your billboard?

Brotherly love is Godly love.

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

Truly, when I say the show has given me everything, it's given me everything.

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.