Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.

Either this or upon this.

Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Don't be an agnostic--be something.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.

A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed, As if Theocritus in Sicily Had come upon the Figure crucified, And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth,

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.