All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Love is our basement. Trust is our strength.

Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, strive to be beautiful from the inside. Surface beauty will fade through time and age, but beauty from the heart, however, will never fade.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Simple natural food is far better than sophisticated food with artificial flavors.

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian."You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans, " I reminded him.Those are vegetables.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.