The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

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.

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.