All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Our gut feeling originates in the realm of our stomach.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 

 Plan for the future but don’t starve yourself to death in the process.