Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

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.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.

I just want to make everyone happy.

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.