Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

First be best, then be first.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Falsehood is for a season.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.