In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

Stay at home mom is still a job.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.