A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

If success was an overnight journey, its prize would become valueless.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.