"The more laws, the less justice."

"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."

"The freedom of poetic license."

"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."

"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."

"We鈥檇 forgive most things if we knew the facts."

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."