There is no greater failure than success through wrong means

Silent people are those who have too much to say

Justice without compassion is but tyranny

Behind every crime lies an insult

Love, not balance, brings enlightenment

No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!