Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.

Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 When I trouble myself over a trifle, even a trifle confessed -- the loss of some little article, say -- spurring my memory, and hunting the house, not from immediate need, but from dislike of loss; when a book has been borrowed of me and is not returned, and I have forgotten the borrower; and fret over the missing volume, ... is it not time that I lost a few things, when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is the mercy of God: it comes to teach us to let them go. Or have I forgotten a thought that came to me, which seemed of the truth? I keep trying and trying to call it back, feeling a poor man until that thought be recovered -- to be far more lost, perhaps, in a notebook into which I shall never look again to find it! I forget that it is live things that God cares about.

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

With wealth you can live in comfort.With drive you can make a comfortable living.With peace of mind, you can be comfortable in living.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

rattling 'round like a pea in a jam jar.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Bid the Devil take the slowest.

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

God had promised salvation to your repentance, but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.