If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
Night is the mother of thoughts.
I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.