The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attention.