What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Envy is a kind of praise.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.

In darkness, don’t cry, wait for the star to appear.

Life is nether a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.

You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.