Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

History was once the future, the future will create history.

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.