If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done, ' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

You struggle alone. But rejoice in success with many.

I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.