There are evils worse than death.

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.

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

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The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.

People don't really think other people are the same.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.