There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai