Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.

In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

Googling is not spying. It's social networking.