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.

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

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.

A Dreamer fails multiple times. A failure fails only once.

God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.

My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.