To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Principle is a passion for truth.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.