It's wrong to anticipate evil.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Every great day has a story and a song!

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

My fans are the best fans, because they're charming, they're sweet and they're super intelligent. Thank you guys so much!

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.