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

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.

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.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

Thoughts can be such slippery things sometimes, Very hard to handle.But to a well-trained mind, They are easy to bind

He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

his mind's like Alcatraz. once something's in, it never gets out

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?