Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
The Devil may also make use of morality.
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.
I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from. . . instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.