All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.