Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have...
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth...
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and...
Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have...
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and if you are...
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image' and I guess there's some...
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a...
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.