"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

"Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that character is forged in the fires of discipline."