Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.