Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

I was never very happy at school.

I am here because of love.

I think women can save civilization.

Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.