My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

A note left for a pianist from his wife: "Gone Chopin, have Liszt, Bach in a Minuet.".

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.

So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Do whatever it takes to get the job done!

And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin.. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the blood of Jesus Christ, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That God seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of His mercy.

Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly-- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.