The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are, without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.

Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.

There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Pray as if everything depended on GOD, Act as if everything depended on yourself!

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass Unheeded by: And as they fly, I, Being dry, Sit, idly sipping here My beer.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.