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.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

So much wrong could religion induce.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.