Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.