The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world.

On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

The older I get, the older old is.