Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

The gunshot holds no fear!

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.