The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.

But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.