Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Nobody ever said life was fair.

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.