The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

When humanity suffers from the darkness of violence, I will bring the empathetic, soft, kind, light from the moon to enlighten humanity.

The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Children are gleeful barbarians.

Don't leave the one who loves you for the one you like because the one you like will leave you for the one they like.

There is no humor in heaven.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light.