the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

I was tired and I think a lot of people are tired of watching other countries ripping off the United States.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.