There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

Awake all living souls and shine thy light.

Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .

I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.