Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.