"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do."

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

"Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you."

"It is a timeless truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."