If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.