Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith.

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

الوقت لا يلئم الجراح، بل الحبtime does not heal wounds, love does

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth.