"Dona€?t you a€?black or whitea€? me."

"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection."

"Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!"

"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."

"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."

"Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?"

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones."

"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."

"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."