What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

The best is the enemy of good.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

The very essence of I is being killed by You.

He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this world!

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.