Until death it is all life

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens.

Trust the Lord to help you fully commit yourself to His service

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.