No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, Evanishes at crowing of the cock.

Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

winning isn't every thing, it's the only thing.

Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. - Thomas Love Peacock,

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.