Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

The end of the play is kind of the beginning.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.