In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.