Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You can not give up because life is a riddle

Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.