What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Her smile was like laughter to me— it bubbled in like champagne.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.