If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

The deeper you love, the deeper you can feel, and the deeper you will understand love.

People are made up of flaws.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Always follow your heart and have faith in yourself and believe in the Lord and He will believe in you.