As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

I left home because I was hungry.

The choices you make today design your future

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.