Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.
The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Undocumented immigrants produced $1. 58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1. 16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1. 44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.
Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.
Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?