Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

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.

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

Man need discomfort for awaken.

Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?