You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell.

Elizabeth poured the brewskilicious foam over her aforementioned bodalicious huzza-huzzas and Wahwahzoozie." — Bats 2015

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

I did try out for football and wrestling but they wouldn't let me on the teams because I had blue hair.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.