Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Life is about connection, not perfection.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain

The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.