Conscience is the root of all true courage.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

I can do small things in a great way.

The atheist has no hope.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.