"As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether."

“Night was running ahead of itself.”

“In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”

“When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.”

“God is good all the time.  Every time.”

“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

“I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to be election time and this gives everyone in Congress a chance to prove they are patriotic.”

Source : "Pledge of Allegiance Judges Facing Demonstrators at Courthouse". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2002.

“O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.”