Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Power doesn’t corrupt people; people corrupt power.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
