In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

You know, I can’t wait for her to gets married because hell is made of fire and she said it would be frozen before she gots married again.” ~ Anna Kate

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.