Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

We're all a part of this world, and it's up to us to make this one chance at living - living worth while. But the only way to do that is by doing it together.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

I would never say that GOD did not do anything I wished for he made it come true.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements