Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

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.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.