Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.

Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.