Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.

Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.

Change is difficult, but necessary for salvation. Turn from your sins and acknowledge Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Let Him take control of your life. He won’t let you down. He’s not you. He’s God.

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.