Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Keep dreaming, Keep hoping, Keep lovingKeep giving, keep motivating, Keep forgiving, Keep praying, Keep tithing, Keep sharing your testimony.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.