There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.