He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.