Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.

It It only when I am alone that I really feel connected to the entire universe.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.

Happiness real only when shared.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.