The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

We are what we repeatedly do but we can be perceived by what we repeatedly say.

Litigation is a tool used by negotiators.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.