He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.

One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.