The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost.

I am going to build something big for you.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Every person's every action has an effect.