Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

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.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

This bright new year is given me