Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'