It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Sow some good. The soil is ready. Your harvest is guaranteed.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

My name is Gin, and I kill people.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.