“Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.”

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

His saying was: live and let live.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Not he who scorns the Saviour’s yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.