If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

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.

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.