Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Club Hate' does not admit fine people to it's membership.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.