Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

'A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?

Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of suffering. I had not suffered much myself and did not help people to be ready for it. But the fact is: when you follow Jesus, what happened to Him happens to you.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Everything starts with the customer.

Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep Did soon draw in agen.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.