Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Life is never free of contradictions

Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!