Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat, I pray that every step you take May bruise and burn your feet.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.

We are in the same boat.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

You can buy a person's time, you can buy their physical presence at a given place, you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without.