He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

The best revenge is living well.

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.