Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Don’t try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you.

Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

Annabeth laced her fingers through his. In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful. 'We're together,' she reminded him. 'We'll get through this.