The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.