To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

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.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

But how can I let him just walk away with a smile on my face and a slap on his back when every cell in my body is tied painfully to him, and I can’t breathe when I think of him being away from me?!

teachers who make lessons interesting get the attention of students

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.