Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, And look on death itself!

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

In my quiet, I was working something out.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.