When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat; yet put out the candle, and both are gone.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.

So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public.

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

crazier than a crap house rat.

Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.