Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

There is no wrinkle-free life.