It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

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.

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

I believe trust is a choice.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the day

A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.