Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth

You don’t create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about.

I serve the God of Isaiah 45:7 so when the darkness comes who gets your praises?

Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.