“No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.”

[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.

My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.