The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

God, please give us more grace!

There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.

Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

No matter how old he is, or what kind of shape he's in, Hogan believes in his heart that he is the star of the show, and he is wrestling. I don't think he gives a damn about anyone else.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.