We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most. . . the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.