As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?