Never leap into battle, when you may come quietly to victory at a walk.

Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it." - Brohan Madhrarigal

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

People aren't always what you want them to be

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.