Piety softens all that courage bears.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.