Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.