Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose

Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks...Better keep biscuits & Move on.

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.