Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

We’'ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.