Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.