Life is hard, no one makes it out alive.

Who is the boss around here anyway?

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared. ... Theologia Germanica December 16, 2002 Repentance is but a kind of table-talk, till we see so much of the deformity of our inward nature as to be in some degree frightened and terrified at the sight of it... A plausible form of an outward life, that has only learned rules and modes of religion by use and custom, often keeps the soul for some time at ease, though all its inward root and ground of sin has never been shaken or molested, though it has never tasted of the bitter waters of repentance and has only known the want of a Saviour by hearsay. But things cannot pass thus: sooner or later repentance must have a broken and a contrite heart; we must with our blessed Lord go over the brook Cedron, and with Him sweat great drops of sorrow before He can say for us, as He said for Himself: "It is finished.".

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt than of expense.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.