Heroes are a mischievous race.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.

The feeling of happiness can never be activated in your life without you loving yourself unconditionally.

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

When no one else signs me.

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.