A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

He who has two languages has two souls.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.