and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

A river reaches places its source never knows.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.