Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.

If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.

I try to see only the good in him

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.