Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

When the time travel is eventually doable technologically, yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.

Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight

Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Style is the image of character.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.