Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.
Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.