A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

We can express ideas without being afraid of being killed or imprisoned.

Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.