The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

My dream, is to dream, a dream.

Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.

I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.