The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

Virtue only is the true beauty.