The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Doing what is right to GOD gives you peace not regret

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.