The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?