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

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

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

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

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

Hey, our hair's the same color, " I said, eying us side by side in the mirror."Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.