Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

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.

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

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.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

Pain is the kiss of Christ.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

Get ticked and get going.

June is the gateway to summer.

False values begin with the worship of things.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.