A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).