Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
