In your imagination, nothing is impossible

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.