Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

When I was a very small child I went to a new play group. The first thing I did was run over to a little tot with incredibly chubby cheeks and sink my teeth right into them.

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.