Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall...

I want something that is nothing like the past.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

The Holy Spirit is not “the Doer,” but rather the “Helper.” He will not do it without us, but if we engage He will help us with what we need to make it happen

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.