“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Friends are ourselves.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

As soon as there was two there was pride.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

What if this present were the world’s last night?

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Make the world better.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.