Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

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.

Love must risk all or perish.

Everything happens for a reason but sometimes the reason is because you are stupid

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

I'm a performer. We don't retire.