Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Potential means nothing unless you’re willing to do something with it.

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.