What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe depending on his bringing up.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

deep, dark jungle.

We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.

Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne.

Ambition never comes to an end.