Grief alone can teach us what is man.

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.

When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it.

If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.