God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.