A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.

Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

It shines like a diamond in a goats ass!

I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.

Be sure that it is a mistaken devotion which interferes with the duties of your natural state of life.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I'd rather do something and fail than do nothing and succeed!

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.