Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel and carve yourself into excellence.

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

It'd be better if he were easier to hate.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.