Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.

He groaned and murmured, "If I didn't think I was going to die, I'd have you right here.

I find there are usually no extremes in relationships, even friendship. One is not always right or never wrong.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.