We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.