"'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."

"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."

"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee."

"Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort."

"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."

"The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity."

"There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things."

"You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them."

"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

"Above all things, reverence yourself."