Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

Chance favours the bold.

The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.