There is compensation in all things.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.