Genius is eternal patience.
Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Every dogma has its day.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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