As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

..it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

Revelation is a pastor’s letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Who said that the sailing is going to be smooth?Though, isn't it worth when you're someone's number one?

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.