It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady?" "I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.