The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.