Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

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.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)

The meaning of life is to make life be more.

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

All you need are the words I give you here and your own honest efforts.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I'm always gonna be Joe Namath, and I'm not running from that.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."