It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.