The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.