There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

Reading maketh a full man.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

This world's a bubble.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

What labels me, negates me.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.