Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Prayer is good but unconditional love is better.

I am all that I have.

To do what is right can be a dirty messy business" S. R. Tabone. Made it up for my Godfifa novel.

If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.