Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?

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If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour, Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:-- Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

They say you can't really know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. I say if they've got itsy-bitsy feet or some kind of foot disease, I don't wanna know 'em!

The world was not given to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children!