The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!

You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.