The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Clarity affords focus.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.