If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

Love dissolves the separation between ‘you’ and ‘me’.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

That throbbing thing in my chest can hardly be called a heart. It has been wrung out and deformed into something merely functional. Nothing can revive it.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

Virtue is not hereditary.