Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

All is well that ends well.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.