While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man when he gets into a higher sphere, into other habits of life, can…

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving; 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be gr…

In the morning, I need twenty minutes to cry, to wake up and make that shift, you know, and to just say, 'This really sucks'...to really allow yourself the fee…

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by …