Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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.

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).

Science is always inquiring.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.