To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

God is always the first one there when we fall, but most of us don’t look up.

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.