All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

That is good which doth good.

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.