What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

Sleep not under a willow tree for she weeps many tears.

Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler out to my wife, "Hello there! It's been a long time since we last spoke!

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

hate generalizes, love specifies

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.