There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.