God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Silence gives consent.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.

A clown sees life simply, without complications.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate.

It is not the mere existence of unusual criminals that [has] ravaged our world; for the arrangements of society (whether national or international) ought always to presume that some of these will be lurking somewhere. The gates have been opened to evil in part because of a terrible discrepancy between human ideals and actual possibilities -- terrible heresies concerning the nature of man and the structure of the historical universe. Christianity, even if it cannot persuade men to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual things, embodies principles which may at least have the effect of bringing the dreamers down to earth. Because it confronts the problem of human sin, it can face our difficulties and dilemmas without evasions -- without the fundamental evasiveness of those who believe that all would be well with the world if it were not for a few unspeakable criminals, always conveniently identified with the political enemy of the moment.