Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Love brought its tail of pains, its long static beam of thorns, and we close our eyes so that nothing, so that no wound will separate us.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Good service is a great inchantment.

Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Coincidence is Gods way of staying anonymous.