Character is revealed through action.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

How different her life would be if Orrin hadn’t contacted her in July. She wouldn’t be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder.

The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.