So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

The lie that started it all.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.