The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts.

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.

The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.

No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it.

The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.

We have peace with God by the righteousness of Christ, and peace of conscience by the fruits of righteousness in ourselves.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

One man with courage makes a majority.

The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high, Where scepter'd angels held their residence, And sat as princes.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further than is necessary to some good end.