Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Faith is the light that chases the darkness of doubt away." el

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.