Try to be of some use to others.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Never write more than two pages on any subject.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.