Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

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.

Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

You're beautiful in your wrath.

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.