Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Never forget who was there for you when no one else was.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.