Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society.

By giving away we feel rich

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.