The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

The throne of grace is the gospel of salvation.

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.