There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.