The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

The dead must heed them.

If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldn’t be needed.

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?