The neer to the church, the further from God.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it.

What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.

I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

The world is run by C students.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is "of him". If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.