My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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.

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.