All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.