Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

This drama had become her mess to deal with, and she had no idea where to even begin trying to mend all of the broken pieces back together. If mending them was even possible.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.