There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.