There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.

And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among The tilted honeysuckle horns They mesmerized and swung In the palpitating air, Drowsed with odors strange and rare. And, with whispered laughter, slipped away And let him hanging there.

The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh, but I never knew that looking back on my laughter would someday make me cry.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...

We will either find a way, or make one.

Love has reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.