As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed

The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.

When I listen to you, Godwhen I do what you ask me to, I am like a treeplanted by a river, a tree full of fruitwith leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.