The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I feel like we have to deal with things, so we realize change! Change comes after pain and pain comes after truth. Truth is hurtful.

He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

Everything has been something before.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.