To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep.

We all have the choice as to how we want to create our world.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.