National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Hello! Look at me! I am your reflection.

In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.