The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

Change the world by being yourself.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

I am of the firm belief that the nation should progress on the issue of development. And it is necessary that the country moves forward on the issue of development.

Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.