Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

You have that faraway look in your eyes that makes me want to pull you into my dreams, bring you to your knees worshiping me - desperately. You, the nectar and the muse of my poetry.

Shifters didn't share when it came to their mate.

Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.

No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Here lies Gomez Addams -- he was good for nothing.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.