It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.