Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

You have wings, I have roots.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do.

Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.