Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

A babe in the house is a well spring of pleasure a messenger of peace and love a resting place for innocence on earth a link between angels and men.

As frost to the bud and blight to the blossom even such is self interest to friendship for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth but that which hatred swelleth is keen to carve out evil.

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than

Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread;

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The world has no room for cowards.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Reflection makes men cowards.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.