When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible