Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest.
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies.