Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

The biggest man you ever did see once was a baby.

How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat. Now give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.

more confused than a woodpecker in a concrete forest.

Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.