The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.