The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

When in doubt take a bath

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.