When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

If you have an imagination, welcome to the gates of Reality.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either, ' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.