What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The world knew you before you knew the world.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.