Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed.

All this for a song.

I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

No man can serve two masters.

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.

Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands That calumny doth use--O, I am out, That mercy does, for calumny will sear Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have said she's goodly, come between Ere you can say she's honest.

At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, Johnny what is the matter? Little Johnny responded, "I have a pain in my side. I think I'm going to have a wife.".

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.