In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation

A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

In love, we are best pleased when we please others.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.