Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

There is no art without intention.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

In order to forgive, you must have blamed.