A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.

Speak life into your goals. Follow up with consistent actions, and at the appointed time, you would surely start to see them transform into realities.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.