Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.