Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

I spread my arms. “In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.