Growth is the only evidence of life.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Calculation never made a hero.

Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

...as young and as ancient as Spring....

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.