You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Shared suffering brings people together faster than anything else does.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

The so-called human race.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The ox-eyes awful Juno.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. -Nancy Kerrigan.