There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Brains were no good to a working man

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.