Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Tom Goodwin was an actor man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts, Especially the ghost.

a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.

You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.

Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.

He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action, as by prayer in its season.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.