The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

You don't endorse error, you allow it.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.