These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

I was the law and order.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

You can't let any team awe you.

I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.