Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Where God guides, He provides.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.

One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

"How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. .

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

When there's nothing on TV, most people will watch it anyway.

It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension of the mind."

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.