The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

Sometimes d worst that happens to u produce d best in you

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.