“We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.”

Have Faith. Where’er thy bark is driven, – The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth, – Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

I feel an army in my fist.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.