To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

When it comes to personal relationships, there is no greater way to express your commitment or to display your trustwor- thiness than to devote your life to the people you love.

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.