Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.