The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

You're rarer than a can of Dandelion & BurdockAnd those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer.

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

True Yankees are born, not made.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.