A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.