Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with.

Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have