Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag, " he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

I believe in art that conceals art.

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.