“A whisper is more interesting than shouts, the hidden more appealing than the advertized, & the insinuated more convincing than the proclaimed.”

“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.”

“Thy will be done. I yield up everything.'The life is more than meat' -- then more than health;'The body more than raiment' -- then more than wealth;The hairs I made not, thou art numbering.Thou art my life--I the brook, thou the spring.Because thine eyes are open, I can see;Because thou art thyself, 'tis therefore I am me.”

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

“Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.”