I love my country better than my family but I love humanity better than my country.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Anything for gold and experience.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.