Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.