Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhood

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.

Love writes without words.

The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.