We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.