I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Your courage is there right alongside of your fear.

Do not be a stupid, unless someone is paying you to be.

Never give your heart to a blockhead.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.