Good music always defeats bad luck
I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.