Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.