Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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.

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

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

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Until one comes who is mightier, The one sprung from misery, The one who was weak, The one who was hunted, The one marked with claw and vine, The one named in secret, The one called Jezelia.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

History is the seed bed of the future.

Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.