Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

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.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.

In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted.

A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.