Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

The force of character is cumulative.

Only he [Gordon Gekko] is a lot smarter than [Donald] Trump.

The soul will always do what it needs to do.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.