Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I choked on the air I'd just sucked in and swung around in disbelief. "What did you just say?""Me and the whole PD heard about your wet bra, so I'm assuming your panties are wet too.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

A success unshared is a failure.

My view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. Can't do it.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.