Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul.

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

Heiresses are never jilted.

Badfinger were a great band

Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.