Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

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.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters, ” bemoaned the report.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

The more you look, the more you will see.