How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

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.

All products come from the worth of time

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.