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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

An ocean refuses no river.