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.

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.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.