Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance.

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.

Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.