“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

For five years I’ve felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.

The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.

I’m always hungry. I want to be the best.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.