Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

With full appreciation, count your blessings no matter how small they might seem. Gratitude and unconditional self-love are the best gifts that you could ever give to your inner-self.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.