God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

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.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.