Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

The first rule of truly living is to do the things you're most afraid of.

Whatever you can conceive, you can achieve it.

This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator – that is what I once thought the world.

Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

If a man bites a dog that is news.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.