Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

A life is black whiten it as you will.

The city reveals the moral ends of being and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us refreshes us lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Neutral men are the devils allies.

Pride is the master sin of the devil and the devil is the father of lies.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the worlds heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Not in achievement but in endurance of the human soul does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Impatience never commanded success.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.