I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

Scatter as a prayerescaping my lips...as orchidsblooming in clouds.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

The glory is for those who deserve.

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.