Religion gives a dignity to distress.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.

Living life is the greatest grace from God.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

Know what you're talking about.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.