A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

Most of the things that remain tied to earth do not know that they have hidden wings under the hard shell of life” - The Monk in the book "Songs of the Mist

I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.