It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

I get antsy and annoyed if I am sedentary too long.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.