Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.